Spike on RapidPro for customizing notifications messages

I’ve created a page for the spike findings.

https://openlmis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OP/pages/494437035/RapidPro+spike

FYI

I’ve taken a quick look at RapidPro and I think it’s not the tool we’re looking for. From what I have grasped, it looks like it deals with collecting data through SMS by building some kind of SMS-based forms. It feels like using it for simply sending SMS is a bit of an overkill and something that the tool wasn’t designed for.

As Sam is out sick today, I'll try to answer the questions as best as I can (as this is the first time I've heard of RapidPro):

1. Probably not an official list, but the approach here would be to keep the Customizable notifications requirements in mind, particularly requirements 2 (SMS support) and 3 (customizable messages). We would spike on what RapidPro can do and see what matches up with what we want in that Epic.

2. I suspect the output would depend on the results of the spike. If RapidPro doesn't really match what we are looking for, then it would probably just be a document that outlines the pros and cons. If it does match well, then we could potentially organize the work needed to implement and write tickets.

1. Do we have a list of requirements that RapidPro should support?

2. What form should the review have? In other words what should be the output of this ticket? Should it be a document, a set of tickets or something else?